Timeline for What if we met tomorrow? vs What if we meet tomorrow?
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 15:21 | comment | added | Sankarane | @rogermue: Your example does not refer to the entry of the thief in the past. It implies future action, completed "by" a certain time. That's why it takes future perfect tense. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:39 | history | edited | Sankarane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 4:52 | comment | added | rogermue | Grammar tense and time referred to do not always correspond. We can make an assumption with high probability with future perfect: The thief will have entered the house in the night/at night. But we refer to an event in the past and not in the future. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 0:52 | comment | added | Sankarane | A lot of it is natural or spontaneous, though the rules of grammar may not be obvious. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 0:50 | vote | accept | zeebo | ||
| Jul 10, 2015 at 0:46 | history | answered | Sankarane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |